Obama reveals plans to grow government

President Barack Obama’s inaugural address revealed his intent to create “a bigger and more ambitious federal government,” and debunked myths he’s a centrist and open to bipartisan compromise, says Fred Barnes in The Wall Street Journal.

Jay Jochnowitz

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I am really tired of the mentality that says a program I have paid into my entire working life is somehow an “entitlement”. If you want to cut real largess and bloated budgets look no further than the Defense Department. These same right wing ideologues decrying “entitlements” are the first to saber rattle and demand war even if it is a war based on lies. They consistently wave flags and thump bibles at any mention of reducing our military foot print abroad. The economy is tanking thanks to the ever growing needs of corporate America to use the government to protect its foreign holdings and to shamelessly accumulate the majority of capital and place int he hands of a very few. Clearly, The Wall Street Journal is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the rich. They may as well merge with Fox News already.

Of course Mr. Barnes is using the corporate Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch) definition of what a “Centrist” is (someone who holds a position that allows creeping Right-wing corporatism to slowly undermine representative democracy one “compromising ” step at a time), rather than operating to serve the interests of the “We The People” of constitutional fame. The corporate defined “Centrist” position has proven to be an effective killing ground to erode our freedoms, and facilitate the transfer of 1/2 of ALL our nation’s wealth (power) in to the pockets of a very few thousand at the top of the heap. They are not to be trusted with giving us yesterday’s weather report, let alone being allowed to determine how we perceive reality.

Jeffrey – social security is an “entitlement” – as in “I am entitled to be paid back the contributions I made into the system for my entire working life.” It is not a gift or a handout, as the tea partiers would have you believe.